projects

A global OER project with a truly international team with Penny Bentley (Australia), Viv Vladimirschi (Brazil), Judith Pete (Kenya), Jenni Hayman (Canada) and Sujata Santosh (India) to curate and share stories of open practitioners, researchers and learners more generally.

My idea for a self tracking tool for personal and professional development as an open source multiplatform mobile application was developed as a prototype by Stuart Bennett MMU intern in collaboration with Digital Labs at MMU (March-Aug 16).

We are currently looking for ways to take this prototype forward and create an app that is usable. If you are interested to find out more, please get in touch.

2015, 2016, 2017

Pedagogic Innovators (#pin) project, has been brought to life at the end of October 2015 and is my National Teaching Fellowship project. The plan is to use creative methods to gain an insight into pedagogic innovators, yes, the people, identify enablers and barriers and strategies that help us spread the bug for innovation and creative innovating communities in higher education. I will carry out this research within my own institution MMU, and am also collaborating with other researchers. Please get in touch with me if this is you 😉

2014, 2015

Open Facilitator Project, a collaboration between CELT, the Open Knowledge Foundation and Carol Yeager to explore open facilitation to create with the community the Open Facilitator Handbook and collect open facilitator experiences, stories and wisdom that will help us all become more effective faciliators in the open. The project site is available at http://education.okfn.org/facilitator/ A collection of Open Faciitator Stories 2014 has been published as a special issue of the Learning and Teaching in Action Journal. You can find this here.

2015

FOS is an open course for teachers in HE who would like to learn more about flexible, open and social learning within a distributed and supported community. FOS is based on FDOL. I developed this and collaborated with Sue Beckingham to organise this. FOS was offered for the first time in July 2015. The community space is available here, on Twitter @fos4l #fos4l

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Creativity for Learning in HE, an open course and OER, to accompany the postgraduate unit Creativity for Learning as part of the PgCert and the MA in Academic Practice (CELT, MMU) The Twitter hashtag is #creativeHE

2014, 2015

StoryboxHE, a place to collect stories around learning and teaching in higher education and share with the wider community, an OER project with Ellie Livermore (CELT, MMU)

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

#LTHEchat or Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, informal open cross-institutional CPD in tweetchat format based on my idea and shared with Sue Beckingam, Peter Reed and Dr David Walker who make up the steering group. Since September 2015 there is a rotating organising group and we have joined forces with the HEA (January 2016) and RAISE (January 2017) offering a shared tweetchat once a month. @lthechat #lthechat

2014, 2015, 2016

Greenhouse, a community for creative practitioners to grow pedagogical ideas, CELT, MMU

BYOD4L or Bring Your Own Devices for Learning, an open cross-institutional initiative developed out of FDOL with Sue Beckingham from Sheffield Hallam University, offered Jan 14, July 14, Jan 15. In January 2016, January 2017 BYOD4L was organised for the first time by a community-led organising team The Twitter id is @byod4l and #byod4l

2013- 2014

FDOL or Flexible, Distance and Online Learning, an open cross-institutional course that started as apostgraduate module and developed into an open course with Lars Uhlin, Karolinska Institutet Sweden (open course, OER)

Online PBL within Academic Development, an experiment with PgCert participants and academic developers from the UK to explore the use of Problem-Based Learning for distributed collaborative development in the open using social media.

2009

MoRe or Mobile Reflections, using social media and specifically audio to develop reflective skills and habits with dyslexic student teachers.

2009,2010

Learning To Teach community. open and online for new teachers and students teachers in FE and Adult Learning using the then freely available social network Ning. The site was available at http://learningtoteach.ning.com and was used to complement a face-to-face course and create opportunities for remote conversations and collaborations as well as sharing of resources.

2008-2010

Audio feedback wiki using wetpaint for academics and other professionals who teach or support learning in HE and HE in FE. It was available at http://audiofeedback.wetpaint.com

www.ilearngreek.co.uk concept, design and content (hosted free by www.snbcgroup.com). E-learning platform for own language students and others around the world. Created over 300 interactive activities (using freely available authoring tools) which I shared freely and openly.

I am Chrissi Nerantzi and this is my personal learning and development space. I am capturing my raw reflections because I find it therapeutic. This process is part of what helps me learn and I am sharing these thoughts here hoping to create opportunities for conversations of what moves me, and hopefully others too, at certain times.